Let me tell you a little bit about identical twin sisters, Tegan and Sara Quin. They’re from Calgary, and they’ve just released their 10th studio album, “Crybaby.” Crybaby contains 12 tracks, they dropped their album on October 21st, 2022 and followed the release with a tour. They performed at The Commodore in Vancouver on November 20th. https://www.straight.com/music/hometown-heroes-tegan-and-sara-deliver-two-decades-of-hits-at-commodore
CRYBABY IS OUT NOW!!! https://t.co/z6cMzchNFQ pic.twitter.com/NBarjzSIaA
— Tegan and Sara (@teganandsara) October 21, 2022
You may have heard of the duo a couple years back when Tegan and Sara released a song called “Closer.” It was one of the biggest songs in 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e9NSMY8QiQ
I remember my first time hearing about Tegan and Sara, I was in the car with my Dad in 2011. I heard about them on the radio one summer, and how they were twins from Canada doing big things. My favorite song by Tegan and Sara would probably be Closer because of the nostalgia it holds for me. However, their new album had some really great songs as well. While I loved both, Yellow and Faded Like A Feeling, my favorite was their single “I Can’t Grow Up” which is a very upbeat song about not knowing when to let go of somebody’s love and really just not being able to grow up and let go. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeF6Woh8xF8
Crybaby has some remastered songs on it that the duo wrote in high school. When asked why, Tegan’s response was,
“When I’m working on music, of course I’m writing about how I feel right now, but I am reprocessing old relationships or old experiences, and I’m reflecting on how I feel now.”
When Sara was asked about why her and her sister released an album about teenage angst now that the twins are in their 40’s, she responded,
“When girls would be emotionally intent, it was like, “Oh, they’re so immature” or “They’re freaking out.” Tegan and I learned that in order to be taken seriously in a really sexist industry, we had to have our emotions under control. You don’t wanna be the woman that everybody’s like, “Oh God, she’s having a meltdown.” I think as adult women we’re in a place now where we can just get on stage and not worry about whether we’re being taken seriously or not.”
You know how many of us would like to keep high school in the past? Tegan and Sara decided to go in a different direction. The duo had their TV adaptation of their 2019 high school memoir released on October 14th. The TV show is starring Railey and Seazynn Gilliland and is about Tegan and Sara’s rise to fame and what that was like in the midst of their adolescence.